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Persian Gulf Crisis
Meanwhile, Secretary of State James A. Baker III gave Congress a ringing defense of the Bush administration's decision to pour troops and weapons into the Middle East, saying the United States had to react vigorously to "one of the defining moments of a new era."
Bush to request cancellation of $7 billion owed by Egypt
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush will ask Congress to write off Egypt's $7 billion military debt to the United States as "a symbol of our appreciation" for help in the Persian Gulf states, the White House said yesterday.
He noted that economic effects of the crisis already are being felt in such ways as higher gasoline prices.
"It is, rather, about a dictator who, acting alone and unchallenged, could strangle the global economic order, determining by fiat we all enter a recession or the darkest chapter in history. House Foreign Affairs Committee."
Baker also said the administration would consider "work with others to create a new security structure for the region," lasting beyond the end of the crisis.
He gave little detail about how such
Marlin Fitzwater, White House spokesperson, said Bush already had consulted with members of Congress about forgiving Egypt's military debt and felt confident they would give the required approval. But Patrick Leahy, chairman of a Senate foreign aid panel, said the debt forgiveness would lead to similar requests from other nations.
an organization might work, though he pointed to success by NATO in curbing Soviet expansion during the Cold War.
"I'm not willing to double or triple our foreign aid budget without a lot
more understanding of what the United States gets out of it," Leahy said.
House Republican Leader Bob Michel, too, said the White House announcement might be premature
"I would like to hear firsthand from the administration the rationale," he said.
Fitzwater said, "This decision, one stimulated in part by Egypt's leadership in resisting Iraqi aggression, is an essential component of the ongoing U.S. contribution to the current situation in the Persian Gulf."
U.S.S.R. proposes Mideast conference
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Soviets yesterday proposed an international conference to discuss the Persian Gulf crisis, the Russian dispute and the Lebanese civil war.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir reiterated his opposition to discussing the Arab-Israeli issue at an international conference, but he welcomed the idea of a conference on the Persian Gulf.
A spokesperson for President Mikhail S. Gorbachev declined to say how hard the Soviet leader wouldmitigate a summit withPresident Bush on Sunday.
"The Soviet president intends to discuss" ways of defusing the Persian Gulf crisis, and he believes that all efforts, including those of a US-backed, heavily invested positively in the Soviet Union. Other spokesperson Vitaly N. Ignatenko
Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze proposed the conference earlier yesterday during a speech in Vladivostok, in the Soviet Far East. Shevardnadze said the summit in Helsinki. Finland, would mark a major milestone on the road toward resolving the crisis in the Persian
Gulf.
But he said that after another look at the situation, the Soviet Union has still come to the same conclusion that international conference on the Middle East.
The Soviet Union voted for a U.N. Security Council embargo against Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2 and has given lukewarm support to U.S. Navy actions to enforce the embargo.
This was a departure from the Kremlin's historic stance. In the past, it shipped arms to militant Arab states, including Iraq; was hostile to Israel; and supported the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Sweardnadre criticized the previous arms sales to Iraq, which ended after the invasion, and said the Soviet Union might re-examine its relations with Israel. But he also linked resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis to the Arab-Iraeli and Palestinian issues, as well as to the civil war in Lebanon.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on one point proposed that a pullout of his troops from Kuwait was contingent upon an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories. The United States rejected the plan.
Jordan makes plea requests urgent aid
The Associated Press
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan's crown prince criticized the international community yesterday for doing little to help thousands of Iraqi and Kuwait, some of whom were died from exposure in the desert.
International organizations trying to cope with the refugee flood said more funds were urgently needed to tackle the crisis.
An estimated 420,000 refugees, most of them Arabs, have poured into Jordan across the desert since Iraq invaded Kuwait Aug. 2. Many Arabs have been repatriated, but some remain in Jordan and Indian. Sri Lankans, Bangladeshs, Thais and Filipinos — remain stranded in Jordan.
Some are stuck in a squall, makeshift camp in the no man's land just inside Jordan because authorities at the border post of swamped by the human tide, have not been able to process them.
The Jordanians have said they cannot let them in until their home governments guarantee aircraft
or ships to evacuate them.
Prince Hassan, brother of King Hussein, appealed for immediate aid.
"We should not forget that the situation, critical as it is, may be only the tip of the iceberg." he told a news conference organized by the U.N. Disaster and Relief Agency.
Although much attention has been given to the Westerners trapped in Iraq and Kuwait, little is being done on the Asians and other refugees.
At the desert camp at Shaalan
25 miles from Ruswisheid, where
41,000 people await transport home
from exposure in the parched area.
One doctor said he feared outbreaks of deadly diseases such as cholera and typhus because of the existent 'sanitary conditions.
"Things are so bad we don't even know how many have died. People are in awful shape," said Rebecca Salti, an American settled in Jordan who works with Save the Children.
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